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With profits being demolished in the construction sector is it time for a review of the Government’s BSA – Building Safety Act? All it seems to be doing is creating more and more delays to the belated green lights of many great construction projects aroun

ended 23. September 2025

With profits being demolished in the construction sector is it time for a review of the Government’s BSA – Building Safety Act? 

All the Act seems to be doing is creating more and more delays to the belated green lights of many great construction projects around the UK. 

As reported in BusinessLink East Midlands – Nottinghamshire’s Van Elle – a successful East Midlands groundworks business is the latest to issue a profit warning. Profit warning for Van Elle as challenging trading conditions continue - East Midlands Business Link

The contrasting risks for fims of architects and developers alike – seem to be causing huge uncertainties in the UK’s construction sector at a time when jobs and the wider UK economy need all the stimulus possible in every sector! 

 

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Mary MaguireVerified
Managing Director at Astute Recruitment Ltd
Never-ending construction sites in towns and cities across the UK need to be given every opportunity to 'complete'. Of course safety standards need to be of paramount importance but not at the expense of causing paralysis amongst architechts and developers around levels of risk and potential jeopardy. Groundwork firms with decades of excellence literally building the foundations of wonderful construction projects need certainty and clarity in their projects. The last thing the construction sector needs is yet more delays as Winter looms!
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Samuel Mather-HolgateVerified
Managing Director & IFA at Mather and Murray Financial
Labour got elected on a manifesto of building houses, and if Angela Raynor didn’t get sacked for dodgy taxes she should have resigned for her record on this. Nearly a year and a half into their term and nowhere near their self imposed house building target. People are fed up with excuses, the government need to pull their collective fingers out and get building. No one wants to cut corners on safety, but the speed of application and authorisation need to be improved immediately. The use of AI should be adopted here with only specifics cases needing human intervention.
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Omer MehmetVerified
Managing Director at Trinity Finance
The Building Safety Act has turned into the Building Stalemate Act. What was meant to protect people is now paralysing projects, piling on costs and pushing developers to the brink. Safety matters, but ministers have weaponised regulation without fixing the root causes, and the result is a construction sector in crisis. If the government doesn’t rip up the red tape and reset the rules, Britain will keep falling further behind on the homes and infrastructure it desperately needs.